Title: Maximum Rows?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Maximum Rows?

 *  Resolved [Mark Jindra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dolomite13/)
 * (@dolomite13)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maximum-rows/)
 * I was wondering what the maximum rows is that can be imported. I have a zip code
   spreadsheet with 51226 rows and 6 columns and it won’t import.
 * I am currently looking at breaking the list apart and was hoping to find out 
   how small of chunks I need to break it into.
 * Thanks
 * =M=
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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maximum-rows/#post-6280617)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.
 * There’s no fixed limit of rows, but that limit depends on the available memory
   and computing power of the server.
 * Now, a table with over 50,000 rows is more something like a database, in my opinion,
   so I’d actually recommend that you look into directly using a database solution(
   e.g. mySQL with some custom PHP code) for this. Most likely, you will not be 
   happy with using TablePress for this, even if you get the import to work.
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [Mark Jindra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dolomite13/)
 * (@dolomite13)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maximum-rows/#post-6280629)
 * Yea I thought that might be what I need to do. The main issue I am having is 
   that a previous dev decided to dump the list into a key value array and stick
   that in javascript. I was just considering my options and was thinking of using
   tablepress and some custom code to write out that array so I didn’t have to make
   too many changes but I am now convinced I should rewrite this thing from scratch.
 * Thanks
 * =M=
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maximum-rows/#post-6280636)
 * Hi,
 * yeah, a rewrite might be in order here, so that you can benefit from modern database
   storing and querying technology.
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias

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 * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maximum-rows/#post-6280636)
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